Sanitary telephone mouthpiece



Oct. 16,1928. 7

' S. FRIEDLANDFR El AL SANI TARY TELEPHONE MOUTH? I ECE Filed April 14, 1927 v 7 u m N "II" v llmll' du m I noamtoto Jamuel f'rz'edlaudfr Theodore dez'smar Patented Oct; 16, 1928 UNITED STAT Es PATENT- QFF'ICR SAMUEL FRIEDLANDER, or ASTORIA, AND 'rnnonoan 'GEISMAR, or JA AICA, iqnw This invention relates to mouthpieces with particular reference to such as are adapted to telephone transmitters.

The mouthpieces of telephones, especially those located in public booths and-which are used continuously, present spreaders and collectors, th us menacing the health of the personsusing them.

It is therefore the main object of this invention'to providea capadapted to fit over the mouthpiece of a telephone, .Whereby the same will be rendered sanitary.

A further aim is to provide a sanitary cap made so as to be readily removable and re; placeable so that a fresh cap may be used for each person utilizing the phone. V

These and other objects, such as simplicity, l0w cost of production, etc.--, are accomplished by the novel design and construction of an integral element, hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, forming an important component of this disclosure,'and in which K p Figure 1 is a fragmentary, front elevational View of a telephonic transmitting instrument, equipped with a sanitaryvcap made in accordance with this invention, part of the latter being broken away to show the construction.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary, partial longitudinal, partial side elevati'opal view of the sameJ 3 r -In the drawing the numeral 5 generally designates the body of a conventional-tele-.

phone to 'which is pivoted an ordinarytrans- YORK.

great germ Application filed A ril 14; 1927. Serial No. 183,712.

mitting device 6 equipped with the usual i mouthpiece 7 Fitting-over the mouthpiece and extending partially therein, is a concave convex cap" 8, made preferably of, wax paper, having its edge 9 bent reentrantly and pinched so as to engage the outer edge 10 of the member 7 Thus the cap is rendered readily remov- L able, so that-each individual user may emplova separate cap when telephoning and by so oing, thespreading of disease due to pub- 'lic telephones is reduced to 'a minimum.

It will be further noted that the cost of such adapters is very little, particularl when taken in the light of comparison-with the beneficial results obtained.

As changes in construction can be made within the scope of the invention, it is in- I tended that all matter'contained in the foregoing description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be ihterpreted as illustrative and-not 'in a limiting sense. Having thus described our invention, What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A sanitary cap for telephone mout-hpieces,

comprising a clrcular disc'of waxed paper presenting an unbroken concave face and having a flanged periphery adapted to engage over the rim of the mouthpiece.

. In witness whereof we have aflixed our signatures. g

. SAMUEL FRIEDLANDER; 'THEODORE GEISMAR. 

